Mal ,'Shindig'
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Not enough.
I think it's ironic that most of my image work is done not on the Mac, but since I use it with a trackpad and not a mouse or the tablet, it's not for the fiddly stuff. But I would like to be able to process my provocateuse pictures through it.
So if I just accidentally disconnected my LaCie disk while it was backing up my laptop, and now my computer won't recognize it, even after I rebooted both, is there anything I can do except buy a new one?
Perkins,
I don't know what to tell you, but that happened to me 2+ years ago with a Western Digital and the damn thing was nearly fried to shit.
I was able to copy off files that I needed and then I stomped on the thing and threw it out of the house.
Yeah, I think that is what I am going to end up doing.
Feh.
I found what I used: Graphic Converter which came with, although it seems I can buy it. But it was free with Tiger. Where'd it go???? That's not fair.
Graphic Converter has never come free with the OS, Tiger or otherwise. However, it HAS come free with various generations of new Macs, just like iLife comes free with all new Macs.
Oh, yeah, I do indeed have an Intel Mac. Sorry about that.
Seriously, though, check Preview. With Leopard it added some good color-balance stuff under Tools->Adjust Color, and it can definitely resize and crop just fine.
I paid for iLife '09 when I upgraded, overall I think it was worth it. The new iPhoto is pretty fantastic.
(The new iMovie, on the other hand, I may actually hate EVEN MORE than its predecessors. And my old version of FCX won't run on my new computer because I don't have the right graphics card. Which means I'll probably wind up paying to upgrade - the newer versions can run on the integrated MacBook Pro graphics cards. Oh, and Avid discontinued FreeDV somewhere along the way. BOO EXPENSIVE NONLINEAR EDITING SOFTWARE.)
Going back a bit to that list. The Blu Ray is doomed but maybe not for a while. Swinburne Uni in Australia has developed a new system that can store up to 64 HiDef movies on a DVD. It's all to do with different coloured lasers n shit like that but even though they've signed a development deal with Samsung, it won't be commercially available for at least 5 years.
Holographic storage, which the Swinburne technology is a variant of, has been five years away for the past thirty years or so.